Flemish school circa 1530, entourage of the Master of the Holy Blood
Descent from the Cross
Reinforced, curved oak panel
Height : 92 cm
Width : 58 cm
Minor chips
Peter van den Brink has pointed out a link between our painting and the central panel of the Lamentation triptych
by the Master of the Holy Blood in Bruges, which gave this painter his conventional name. Some thirty
Master of Saint Sang; Meester van het Heilig Bloed), this painter was
Heilig Bloed), an artist who incorporated the Bruges tradition of Ambrosius Benson and Adrian Isenbrant with elements
elements influenced by Quentin Metsys (M. J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. IXb, New
York-Washington, 1973, pp. 118 - 120).
Among the many versions and variants of this Pietà, our composition is close to the versions preserved at the Capilla Real.
versions preserved in Granada's Capilla Real or the Belgrade Museum.
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